Chapter 7: The Glittering Sugar Gourd
Shen Pingping is not as good as the original owner, even the chubby Shen Xiujuan, and she does not have such a rich dowry as Shen Xiujuan, so it is impossible for the Cui family to fall in love with her.
However, Cui Zixuan understands very well that now is not the time to turn his face with Shen Pingping, after all, Shen Xiujuan and Shen Yunxi are different generations, and he can't hold his face when he talks about it.
Today's business is indeed very hot, just after noon, all the sugar gourds have been sold, and Shen Yunxi is also so hungry that his chest is pressed against his back.
After calculating today's income, I received a total of one tael of silver with twenty copper plates, and after deducting the cost of ten catties of sugar and six hundred yuan, I earned four hundred and twenty yuan.
The speed of making money is still too slow! It is still necessary to study more apps and develop more ways to make money.
Mu Chenglin gave Shen Yunxi a fraction of twenty, and Shen Yunxi accepted it happily!
Mu Chenglin bought four meat buns, half a catty of meat, three catties of sugar, and then went back with Shen Yunxi.
Because they came back a little late, everyone ate meat buns to pad their stomachs first, and Mu Chenglin cooked meat with wild vegetables and mushrooms.
After eating, when Shen Yunxi was about to go back to his room to rest, he saw that a vacant lot in the courtyard was full of words, and it should be Mu Chengjin practicing calligraphy with a tree branch.
The handwriting is good, Shen Yunxi doesn't know calligraphy, but she can still see whether the handwriting is good or not.
It is impossible to write such words with tree branches alone, which should have been practiced by Mu Chengjin before.
What did this Mu family do?
Without thinking about this, Shen Yunxi picked up the basket and went to pick wild vegetables and mushrooms again!
Yesterday's wild vegetables and mushrooms were already half dry, and if I went to pick some today, it will be difficult to see such fresh wild vegetables in autumn.
While picking wild vegetables, Shen Yunxi was thinking about his plans for the future in his heart.
The most stable way is to open a fresh food that is not easy to be imitated, easy to pack, and can be eaten in.
But before doing this, she needs to have the support of money, without capital, she can't do anything, she can make a few simple dishes first.
You can make it yourself and sell it, or you can sell it directly.
In order to promote economic development in the Xia Kingdom in recent years, the emperor cultivated some imperial merchants and formed many caravans, so sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, etc. have been introduced in recent years.
However, because these are not easy to preserve, especially potatoes, which are easy to sprout, there are not many of them growing in the farmland.
But she Shen Yunxi is not afraid, sweet potatoes and potatoes can be made into all kinds of delicious food, potato chips and fries, all kinds of vermicelli, popcorn corn branding.
Fans can make all kinds of delicacies, even if she doesn't check the APP, she can say a bunch of them.
Another crop is soybeans.
When it is young, it can be eaten tender, but when it is old, except for fried soybeans, the people here have not studied its other ways to eat it thoroughly.
Livestock eat too much, and it is easy to cause all kinds of discomfort.
There are too many ways to eat soybeans, the most common ones are tofu dried tofu, bean sprouts bean paste, tempeh soy sauce, dried soybeans are soaked in the soak and are also an ingredient in themselves.
Shen Yunxi was digging wild vegetables, and she thought that she felt that she should start with bean sprouts.
Because bean sprouts are the simplest, the raw materials only need soybeans, soybeans go directly to the farmer to buy, it is not expensive, even if it fails, it is not distressed.
Soon the basket of wild vegetables was full, Shen Yunxi carried the wild vegetables back, Mu Mu and Mu Chengjin were already in the yard, and seeing that Shen Yunxi had brought back a basket of wild vegetables, the two of them immediately stepped forward to help.
"Yunxi, the wound on your head is not good yet, you don't need to work so hard." Mu Mu was a little distressed when she saw that Shen Yunxi had not rested since the morning.
"It's out of the way, I just have time, I'm going to dig more, so that the days will be better in winter."
Mu Mu saw that Shen Yunxi was so insistent, so she had to give up, "By the way, after selling the sugar gourd tomorrow, let Ah Lin go buy some cloth, the clothes you married are just a few old summer clothes, and it will be autumn soon, and these clothes are not warm." ”
"But, I don't know how to sew clothes!" Shen Yunxi didn't think about this stubble, she was full of money every day, and she forgot the shabby marriage of the original owner.
"It's okay, my mother will, my mother will do it for you!" Mu Mu said kindly to Shen Yunxi.
Mu Chengjin on the side also interjected, "Sister-in-law, my mother's skills in making clothes are good, so you can rest assured that you can leave it to your mother!" ”
"Then thank you, mother!" Shen Yunxi also smiled happily.
When Mu Chenglin went home with a basket of hawthorn, he saw the sound of talking and laughing all over the yard, he hadn't seen his mother and brother so happy for a long time.
Shen Yunxi saw that it was still early, and planned to go to the mountain again, this time Mu Chenglin walked with him.
Mu Chenglin walked in front and didn't say anything all the way, Shen Yunxi only felt that this person was too boring, so she simply provoked the topic.
"Brother Mu, the sugar gourd business doesn't take much time, I have another idea, but the raw materials need to use soybeans."
As soon as Shen Yunxi's words fell, Mu Chenglin's pace slowed down a lot, "Soybeans? ”
Mu Chenglin is no stranger to soybeans, they were just introduced by the caravan a few years ago, and they were really delicious when they were still green, but after they were old, they were not very useful.
In addition, the yield is not high, so every household has only grown a little bit.
In view of Shen Yunxi's performance in the past two days, Mu Chenglin no longer had any doubts, and he asked directly, "How many soybeans do you need?" ”
"Half a catty is fine, not too much!"
"Yes, I'll go to the village chief's house later and ask him to buy some."
"Brother Mu, aren't you curious at all?" Shen Yunxi was a little surprised to see Mu Chenglin agreeing so readily.
"I'm curious, so I'm looking forward to you making something else out of soybeans." Mu Chenglin said very sincerely, but in Shen Yunxi's opinion, it was somewhat perfunctory.
The two of them found another field of wild vegetables near the trap, and Shen Yunxi found several different fungi, she had already studied APP before she came, and these fungi were all non-toxic and edible, and they were all in Shen Yunxi's back basket.
After picking wild vegetables, Mu Chenglin went to see the trap again, and there was an injured rabbit and two pheasants in it, and the harvest was not big.
"Tomorrow I'll go to the trap in the deep mountains to see, I haven't been there for a few days, I guess there should be a lot of gains." Seeing that Shen Yunxi was a little disappointed, Mu Chenglin explained.
This is an outer mountain, which is relatively safe, so there are fewer prey.
"Wouldn't that be dangerous?" Shen Yunxi asked.
"For hunters, danger goes hand in hand with harvest." Mu Chenglin tied the two chickens, hung them around his waist, threw the injured rabbit in the back basket, carried the back basket on his back, picked up Shen Yunxi's back basket again, and took Shen Yunxi down the mountain together.
Shen Yunxi picked some wild peppers, red peppers and rattan peppers that he saw along the way.
"What do you do with these, these things are very exciting and not suitable for food." Mu Chenglin saw Shen Yunxi's movements, and he asked with some puzzlement.
Could it be that these things can also be delicious food?
"They don't make food, but they can be used as seasonings!" Shen Yunxi replied, "It's like sugar and salt." ”
Seeing that Mu Chenglin was still a little puzzled, Shen Yunxi continued, "When you make rabbits tonight, just put some, it must taste very good!" ”
"In addition to the ones I just picked, there are also wild ginger and wild onions that can also play a role in removing the smell and enhancing the flavor, but I didn't see them today."
Mu Chenglin nodded suspiciously, he felt that Shen Yunxi was like a treasure trove now, there were always some ideas that were different from ordinary people, but they could make people's eyes shine.
Maybe he Mu Chenglin spent one hundred and twenty taels of silver and really picked up the treasure!
It's just that she seems to care about that Xiucai very much!
Show talent? Mu Chenglin smiled disdainfully in his heart!
After Mu Chenglin went home, he turned around and went to the village chief's house, Shen Yunxi and Mu Mu Chengjin picked wild vegetables and dried mushrooms together, and soon the whole yard was full of wild vegetables and mushrooms.
When it was almost dark, Mu Chenglin rushed back, he went to several people's houses, and only then did he exchange ten cents a pound for two catties of soybeans.
"When soybeans first came, everyone planted a lot, but when they got old, they were hard, and the livestock ate too much and had problems. So in the past few years, everyone has only planted a little bit and eaten tender edamame. ”
"These soybeans are the seeds left by everyone, and each family evens a little bit for me."
Mu Chenglin handed over the soybeans to Shen Yunxi and explained, Shen Yunxi listened to it and felt that this would not work, without soybeans, what would she use to make soy products?
Mu Chenglin went to kill the rabbit, Shen Yunxi took out two taels of soybeans and soaked them in warm water.
Mu Mu knew that Shen Yunxi had thought of another idea, not to mention how happy she was.
Because Mu Chenglin went to several families to buy soybeans, it began to spread in the village that the Mu family was about to run out of food, and could only eat cheap, hard and indigestible soybeans.
Poor thing!
After soaking the soybeans, Shen Yunxi secretly opened the "Falling in Love with the Kitchen" APP and searched for the method of stir-fried rabbit meat.
Now that the seasoning is limited, Shen Yunxi has to simply use the existing ingredients.
After the rabbit meat is cut into small pieces, it is marinated with salt and a little wine.
There wasn't much wine, it was left over from the banquet a few days ago. Mu Chenglin has no habit of drinking, so he keeps this little wine away.
Shen Yunxi washed the wild peppers, red peppers, and rattan peppers, and prepared some wild vegetables and mushrooms.
After the rabbit meat is marinated, she adds a little flour and mixes well.
Then Mu Chenglin lit a fire, Mu Chengjin looked at the fire, and Shen Yunxi commanded Mu Chenglin to take charge of the spoon on the side.
After the pot was hot, a little lard was added, and Shen Yunxi knew that in this era, there was no vegetable oil.
Soybeans and corn are all sources of vegetable oil, and she only feels that she has a great responsibility in the future.
After the lard is melted, add the rabbit meat, stir-fry over high heat, stir-fry until it changes color, and then serve.
Leave oil in the pot, and then add wild peppers, red peppers and rattan peppers, because it is a big fire, soon the house will be filled with spicy smell, and the three people who choked tears flowed.
Shen Yunxi hurriedly asked Mu Chenglin to add the rabbit meat again, and then put in a small amount of water, salt and sugar.
The spicy taste is mixed with the aroma of rabbit meat, and the gluttonous insects in the human body are ready to move.
Mu Chengjin stared at a large plate of stir-fried rabbit meat and swallowed his saliva.
Shen Yunxi said to him with a smile, "Go wash your hands, and then call your mother over and start eating!" ”
Shen Yunxi and Mu Chenglin served the rice together and set the dishes and chopsticks.
"Oh, I smelled the fragrance from afar, what delicious things I made today!" Mu Mu walked in happily, she was in a good mood these days.
Although the Shen family cheated money and marriage, Shen Yunxi did not disappoint at all, except that he couldn't do housework.
"It's called spicy fried rabbit meat, mother, you can try it." Shen Yunxi sandwiched a piece of rabbit meat for Mu Mu, and Mu Mu was not polite and tasted it.
"Wow! It's spicy! But it smells so good! Mu Mu took a bite and said with praise.
In the past, the rabbit meat made by her son always smelled bad, and she was always unaccustomed to eating it.
But today's rabbit meat is obviously much more fragrant, and the smell is not so obvious.
"Because a lot of seasonings have been added today, in addition to these, like garlic, coriander, and some medicinal herbs, which can also be used as seasonings."
Shen Yunxi tasted it, it didn't meet expectations, but it was okay.
"Is this what your mother taught you?" Mu Mu asked.
Shen Yunxi: Well, it's too much, there are a lot of things to say!
"Sort of! My mother mentioned it to me, but today I also tried it for the first time! Shen Yunxi vaguely fooled over.
Shen Yunxi didn't see it, but Mu Mu and Mu Chenglin glanced at each other.
The meal was very full, and Mu Chengjin burped, causing everyone to laugh.
Early the next morning, Mu Chenglin and Shen Yunxi went to the town with one hundred and twenty strings of golden silk sugar gourds.
By the time they arrived in town, they had already seen several stalls selling sugar gourds, and the prices were cheap, two pennies a bunch.
All this was expected for a long time, but when Shen Yunxi and the others took out the golden silk sugar gourd, everyone was dumbfounded.
That's beautiful, isn't it? The golden sugar threads completely wrap the hawthorn inside, like a work of art, which makes people reluctant to put their mouths down.
"Golden silk sugar gourd, sweet and crisp gold silk wrapped in red hawthorn, meaning that gold and silver are coming to your house on a prosperous day!"
"Buy a string for your family, buy a string for your children, and it's auspicious!"
Shen Yunxi praised it, and many people came to buy the golden silk candy gourd, but they were reluctant to eat it, so they all took it in their hands and watched it seriously.
But there are also many people who visit the stalls of other sugar gourds, mainly because they are cheap.
The golden silk sugar gourd is just good-looking, it tastes almost the same, there are many children in the family, and there are more people to buy, and the advantage of the price difference is reflected.
Shen Yunxi didn't care at all.
No matter what the product is, it will always come in a variety of forms. Just like grain, there are rice and wheat, coarse grains and fine grains, rich people eat rice and white flour, and poor families eat coarse grains.
Everyone's consumption level is different, rich people can buy better snacks, but those who live at the bottom and are reluctant to spend a penny more can buy cheap sugar gourds.
A vendor who sells a bunch of two cents has to sell forty bunches a day to earn twenty cents, which can only be regarded as making a living!
That's the diversification of goods!
The sales speed of the golden silk sugar gourd is not slow, and its beautiful appearance has attracted many people.
Just as Shen Yunxi was spitting saliva to introduce the golden silk sugar gourd, a gorgeously dressed young man looked at her quietly.
Shen Yunxi glanced twice, his eyebrows were not as handsome as Mu Chenglin's, but this outfit showed that he was a rich man.
"Childe, do you want to buy a golden silk candy gourd?"
Childe smiled, "Under the surname Xia, I want to ask the girl to talk about business!" ”